Areas of Practice
- Business & Commercial Transactions
- Commercial Lending & Finance
- Corporate & Securities
- International
- Public Finance
Education
- Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 1980
- New York University School of Law, Studies in European Corporate and Commercial Law, 1980
- University of London, Studies in European Union Law, 1979
- Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Graduate Studies in Comparative Constitutional Law, 1977
- Princeton University, B.A., 1976, with honors
Bar Admissions
- Louisiana, 2004
- New York, 1982
Jack Shannon is a partner in the firm's Business & Commercial Transactions Practice Group and has been practicing law for more than 25 years, predominantly in the areas of banking, international, and corporate law. His practice focuses on capital markets and financial transactions in Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia, and his clients include banks, other financial institutions, and foreign corporate borrowers.
Mr. Shannon has advised global banking corporations, various non-banking financial institutions, and corporations in connection with Eurobond and other foreign debt offerings, foreign debt restructurings, private placements, registered securities offerings, exchange offers, tender offers, commercial paper, global depository receipts, certificate of deposit programs, letter of credit backed facilities, mortgage and other asset-backed (including export, credit card, and other receivables) transactions, oil and gas transactions, lease financings (involving aircraft, airports, ships, electrical transmission lines, and telecommunications equipment), international toll road financings, and foreign government debt offerings and restructurings. Many foreign debt offerings have coupled private placements in the United States and the Euro-markets, pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S, with public offerings in the issuer's country of incorporation.
Mr. Shannon is also very experienced in working with multilateral lenders, such as the International Finance Corporation, the United States Export-Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the Japanese Bank of International Cooperation, and with domestic and foreign clearing systems, stock exchanges, and governmental trade, insurance, and financing institutions.
Noteworthy
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC) in the area of International Trade and Finance Law (listed annually since 2010)
News
- Eighty-Two Attorneys Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012
- Seventy-Three Attorneys Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2011
- 2010 Best Lawyers in America Rankings Showcase Jones Walker’s Depth, Growth
- Jones Walker Names Twelve New Partners
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
- New York State Bar Association
- Louisiana State Bar Association
